Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology that is being developed as a protection against the illegal distribution of copyrighted online material such as music or documents. DRM is a technology that lets rights holders safely distribute and sell their content online in a digital form. Different security mechanisms using DRM are introduced: EMMS by IBM Corp., Rights System by InterTrust Co...

Internet-based distribution of mass-market content provides great opportunities for producers, distributors, and consumers, but it may seriously threaten users’ privacy. Some of the paths to loss of privacy are quite familiar (e.g., mining of credit-card data), but some are new or much more serious than they were in earlier distribution regimes. We examine the contributions that digital-rightsm...

Lipid rafts are known to regulate several membrane functions such as signaling, trafficking and cellular adhesion. The local enrichment in sphingolipids and cholesterol together with the low protein content allows their separation by density gradient flotation after extraction with non-ionic detergent at low temperature. These structures are also referred to as detergent resistant membranes (DR...

It is of critical business importance for organizations to keep confidential digital documents secure, as the potential cost and damage incurred from the loss of confidential digital documents have increased significantly in recent years. Digital Rights Management (DRM) was developed to help organizations keep digital documents secure, as one of many digital information security solutions. In t...

A health economic analysis was performed to assess the economic impact on the national health care budget of using oral nutritional supplements (ONS), being a food for special medical purposes also known as medical nutrition, for the treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM) in the community in the Netherlands. An economic model was developed to calculate the budget impact of using ONS in...

This paper addresses a significant aspect of digital rights management (DRM): the unique challenges of building a working DRM infrastructure for networked digital libraries or repositories. We outline how, based on our experience with building, populating and operating a digital library, many of the existing problems for the current generation of DRM technology are magnified in a distributed, n...

Controlling and managing rights of digital contents has been becoming very critical in cloud-based consumer entertainment devices. The kernel-level digital rights management (DRM) software can offer stronger protection of digital contents. For effectively preventing unauthorized copying, the rootkit stealth technologies may be employed in consumer electronics (CE) environments to conceal kernel...

One of the most important trends in the present day computing model is the service oriented approach to the distribution of applications and services over the Internet. The paradigm model behind the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) encompasses the possibility to potentially have completely heterogeneous application architecture in which each of the services provided can be implemented in the...

The DRM based procedures are sensitive to the selection of the function used in the DRM approximation, and hence the Dual Reciprocity Method Multi Domain approach (DRM-MD) encounters the same drawback. For 3D problems, there is no information available on the performance of DRM-MD using different approximation functions. Here, the accuracy of two DRM-MD codes that solve the Poisson and the adve...

The paper starts with a description of the fundamental principles of modern Digital Rights Management Systems. This is the basis for the discussion of their most important security aspects from the provider’s view on the one hand and the customer’s view on the other hand. The second half of the paper focuses the new DRM standard from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and its implementation on “ope...